I think the bike thing would be the roadblock, since we only see Kandice doing it from the BQs, and Danielle doing it from E/D.

I knew U/J got screwed by a flight delay! Sucks for them, haha. I think C/M lose their lead.

Izad, based on the fact that your random images aren't so random, I'm impressed with the fact that you were able to sit on all of this information for almost four months! Good Job! *ends suck up in hopes of new information* .... HAHA, just kidding...or am I?

Hey guys. I've been lurking on this site for quite some time and decided to start posting. I must say that I'm really impressed at what you guys came up with. Anyways, the sign board pointing right should say 'Kg Baru' which is short for Kampung Baru. Can't make out the left one though. And the words underneath Arabic writings looks like 'Masjid Jamek Kg Baru Kuala Lumpur'. Hope this helps

Welcome dtyz87

I found a map where I think Charla & Mirna are standing on the street corner. Thanks to dtyz87 keen eyes. They appear to be standing near the building (green square on map) with similar writing as to what dtyz87 said ('Masjid Jamek Kg Baru ).

I have been doing my usual with the airline flights. I start with my assumptions about the earliest teams can reach Krakow airport. They are:

Uchenna/Joyce and Oswald/Danny - around 7am

Dustin/Kandice, Charla/Mirna and Eric/Danielle - after 1pm

So, that means that the obvious 6am flight to Vienna with the wonderful connection to Kuala Lumpur is out(and no doubt Amazing Race producers knew that when they scheduled the activites after Auschwitz/Birkenau to assure that the pitstop time plus 12 hours would be later than 5am).

The best flight if they hustle and can figure out the routing immediately on reaching the airport is:

This puts all these teams at least 8 hours behind the 2 teams if they arrived on schedule between 0605 and 0635. It makes it difficult to explain how Charla/Mirna all of a sudden become the leaders at Batu Caves. If someone can figure that out, please let me know. The only way I can explain it is that weather trouble or delays in Zurich and Paris do not affect Amsterdam and allow the 3 trailing teams to get back into the lead.

I ask because on the Pitstop Cam they show our Final Five having a lovely lunch together down in the salt mine near Krakow

But I can't figure out how they do that without a longer than usual Pitstop--maybe 24 hours? It just seems like the teams are too spread out for everybody to have a leisurely lunch together inside of 12 hours...what do you think?

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Ok so i know we originally thought that U/J go out this leg and that they were so far behind from a previous leg. It is clear from tonights episode we can scrap that. What are the chances/probability that maybe they are in fact the team that is so far ahead?

I ask because on the Pitstop Cam they show our Final Five having a lovely lunch together down in the salt mine near Krakow

But I can't figure out how they do that without a longer than usual Pitstop--maybe 24 hours? It just seems like the teams are too spread out for everybody to have a leisurely lunch together inside of 12 hours...what do you think?

PEACH, I haven't seen the Pitstop Cam yet. For the 3 bottom teams who would not be released until about 1pm there would be no problem with an early leisurely lunch. However, if Uchenna/Joyce or Oswald/Danny are shown then it has to be another extended pitstop. Those teams should be on their way by 7am. And yes, the day of the week can matter on flights. At least one of the flights listed above is a Friday or Friday/Wednesday or some other odd combination that would not apply if it were Saturday.

I ask because on the Pitstop Cam they show our Final Five having a lovely lunch together down in the salt mine near Krakow

But I can't figure out how they do that without a longer than usual Pitstop--maybe 24 hours? It just seems like the teams are too spread out for everybody to have a leisurely lunch together inside of 12 hours...what do you think?

PEACH, I haven't seen the Pitstop Cam yet. For the 3 bottom teams who would not be released until about 1pm there would be no problem with an early leisurely lunch. However, if Uchenna/Joyce or Oswald/Danny are shown then it has to be another extended pitstop. Those teams should be on their way by 7am. And yes, the day of the week can matter on flights. At least one of the flights listed above is a Friday or Friday/Wednesday or some other odd combination that would not apply if it were Saturday.

Uh-oh.

They are all five there.

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Not that I know one way or another but just curious why some of you think TBC? Why should U/J be saved just because their flight is delayed or whatever? Same could have been said for Teri/Ian & the Guidos.

The answer to your earlier question, now that I have had time to research it, is that the Zurich-based connection is destroyed. Also, the Amsterdam connection is totally changed to other flights that arrive 2 3/4 hours later at 1725(instead of 1440. They are LO3312 to WAW, LO267 to AMS, BD112 to LHR and MH001 to KUL. The only connection that stays OK is the one through CDG. All of this assumes Saturday Dec. 10 and a 36 hour extended pitstop in Krakow. If the extended pitstop is only 24 hours, the n all bets are off and the analysis has to be totally redone.

The answer to your earlier question, now that I have had time to research it, is that the Zurich-based connection is destroyed. Also, the Amsterdam connection is totally changed to other flights that arriv 3 1/4 hours later. they are LO3312 to WAW. LO267 to AMS, BD112 to LHR and MH001 to LHR. The only connection that stays OK is the one through CDG.

Apskip--Did you see this? I think it is in Krakow (??) and Dustin/Kandice say "I think they are not going to be able to make their flight" about U/J and then the editors flash to this--does it mean anything to you??

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I was so sure that this thread would be rapidly increasing today, especially since we've known about this episode since November!

Not much more to know? We know where they go and who's ahead and the Roadblock looks lamo and we're all 99.9% sure that its either a NEL or TBC and Ucheena & Joyce arrive last or theres still that slight chance that U/J are eliminated. I guess all thats left is what the Detours are and where the pitstop is but have a feeling izad will fill in those blanks.